An unemployed truck driver seething over liberalism told police he opened fire in a church last year because it harbored gays and multiracial families and he hoped others would follow his example.

"They just glory (in) these weirdos and sickos and homos," he said in an interview recorded by investigators.

He also railed against the Unitarian Church: "That ain't a church, that's a damned cult," Adkisson said.

Adkisson walked into the church, pulled a sawed-off shotgun from a guitar case and fired into a congregation of about 230 people watching a children's musical performance.

Adkisson left a four-page suicide note in his SUV in the church parking lot. In it, he described the attack as "a hate crime,"

Adkisson concluded, "I'd like to encourage other like-minded people to do what I've done. If life ain't worth living anymore don't just kill yourself. Do something for your country before you go. Go kill liberals."

Catherine Murray, who was friends with the couple, told police Adkisson had drug and alcohol problems and "basically was afraid of anybody or anything that was not like him."

I'm not sure if it's fundie or just pathetic evil, but the fundie end of the spectrum informed his actions, and influenced his behaviour with respect to people unlike him, sothey must bear some of the blame.

The one thing common in liberal discourse is that there is no "other", that everyone is equal in their humanity, and if you degrade this you open yourself to the danger of dehumanising others.

Killing people for being different is evil.
Killing yourself because you don't have the spine to face the consequences of your evil is craven. And, I would say, an admission that you knew what you were doing was wrong.

Anyone ever notice that these shooting sprees always hapen in places where all the people think the more guns the more safe. These idiots are arming themselves even further these days fearing barack and his negro army. I think now a days its safe to say criminals who kill people live in inner-cities, and the psycho rambo types all live in the burbs or the boondocks

Another news report I heard about this said this guy had said he read the Republican hate book "The 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America", and went off to kill these people because he couldn't get to the ones listed in the book. The Republican media hate-machine really can pat itself on the back fo this one. Hannity would be so proud.

The last set of statistics I saw related to guns use was that only 2% of use was for personal protection. The vast majority was little Johnny blowing his playmate's head off, or Uncle Joe getting suicidal, a domestic argument excalating, someone going postal, a gun stolen and subsequently used in a crime or something else.